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There are actually so many ridiculous xmen that it's hard to draw a banline beyond franklin.

X-man is similar to cable, and hope summers is pretty ridiculous as well, and we're not even getting into magneto/iceman/Jean grey
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Oh jeez, I forgot about that one
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That draft style sounds good to me

We probably don't need any more bans, but I'm not creative enough to think of how to defeat some of the omegas/ mind controllers without some of the villains that are specifically immune to mind control

Maybe by having a mind controller of your own to battle them
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A second is longer than you think!
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I can't guarantee I'll be available until 8pm eastern unfortunately

Unless we're doing a super slow draft in which case I could check in throughout the day

Also ban Franklin Richards imho
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Actually, I'm starting to realize there might be a character or two that deserves a ban for being overpowered or unfun to discuss
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This sounds fun!

IIRC the x-men are super unbalanced power wise, but there are enough overpowered characters and a little bit of a rock paper scissors thing going on to potentially keep it interesting

I will be disappointed if people vote by coolness instead of power!
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they already dead. the big deal is when someone that's alive dies
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i swear they print a version of OUaT every set. what makes this one so crazy? is it just that the green shell is so good?

i guess they've never printed one that is both an instant and potentially free sometimes
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i was totally into the faux-prehistoric vibe, and i enjoy the core gameplay

it was weird, I wanna say I just put the game down one day and forgot to pick it up again
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Best College Sports Team of the 2010s: UConn Huskies Women's Basketball
Runner Up: Alabama Crimson Tide Football

Of the dozen or so categories I'll be presenting, this one was literally the hardest to decide between the winner and the runner up. No other major collegiate athletics programs even come close to touching these two in terms of dominance for the decade. And it's hard to imagine any other team will for many years to come.

There are a few factors at play in this one. On one hand, I think it's uncontroversial to state that it's much harder to win a college men's football game than to win a women's college basketball game. The physicality, the competition, and the stakes are just so much higher in the former. That's what makes Alabama's series of annihilation throughout the course of the decade (4 national titles and 10 solid years of being in the running) so impressive. But it's also what makes the UConn Lady Huskies' decade so fucking astounding as well.

It goes without saying that women's basketball is a little different than Alabama football. However, those differences and the success this team had in spite of them is why I am awarding them the Team of the Decade title. Alabama made millions and millions of dollars from their sports program. They enlisted dozens of the best recruiters to snatch up the best football players in the country, year after year, and their success only made them an even bigger juggernaut. UConn, on the other hand, doesn't exactly live and die by the success of their women's basketball team. Athletes are scouted, sure, but there isn't an entire industry made out of it. And because of that, many of the best female basketball players go to school based on where they want to go to school--not based on where they want to play. In short, UConn murdered everyone not because the best talent was drawn to them, but because their program was that unparalleled.

A few quick stats from this team in the 2010s:
-5 NCAA tournament championships
-4 consecutive titles
-4 undefeated seasons
-111-game winning streak, which is the longest winning streak of any college sports team in the history of college sports

We will not see anything like this again.

Stupid trivia:

The trinity college squash team has that last record with 252 consecutive wins, if you count it

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/sports/trinitys-record-winning-streak-ends-at-252.html
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I'm really curious as to how much income game freak really gets

I have no idea how all that pokemon revenue gets split between them, Nintendo, the pokemon company, creatures, etc, and who has the rights to what in which country

I feel like game freak must be getting the short end of the stick if they still have under 150 total employees
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All of the avengers were originally c-tier superheroes, oddly enough!

It was a comic with a rotating, ensemble cast that marvel would throw all of their superheroes not popular enough to support their own comic into

Periodically they'd try to boost ratings by giving someone like spider-man, wolverine, or a fantastic four member double duty, but anyone whose only regular appearances were in the avengers were fodder for a very long time
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took the test for the first time in a long while

i nominate aerodactyl for most forgettable

also pinsir, goldeen, the middle nidos (not f/m or king/queen), shellder, and the seel line

i also got stuck for a while because i was 100% convinced poliwrath was supposed to be called politoed.

some pokemon would never pop into my brain in a million years, but others i could visualize but couldn't name for the life of me (the nidos, the final evolution of gloom)

i never watched the cartoons, though
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same here! i'd like the details but i unfortunately/seriously don't have the time to dedicate to reserved playtesting time for at least a month

additionally, what's the deal with all of the 'test' cards i'm seeing on the mtg subreddit
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Lol
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colts
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I thought Incineroar was super dumb until I saw it in motion in the actual game

It treads that weird line of comedy/faux edge/ looking too humanoid
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I think we have to go by the sporcle results- there's literally no other vaguely data oriented way

It's something from the bottom 10 or so
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Nothing Personnel, Kid
2WB
Instant
Exile target creature you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at end of turn.
Destroy target creature.
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ShatteredElysium posted...

It has the memorable Charizard fight in the anime though

Ah, that explains it, i never saw that.
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How about that fire poke with no evolutions next to electabuzz?
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aw man, apparently the PC port of deadly premonition is buggy as all hell.
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bad movies have existed forever

rote blockbusters have been raking in the cash for almost as long

it can feel unfair to pick on a particular series, but movies that aren't doing anything new or teaching me about the human experience just aren't very interesting.

Sure, i can go in the theaters and hook myself up to the drip of another formulaic action romp that will have the low point at 87 minutes and the penultimate victory at 103. i could go grind levels in destiny for 2 hours and have a good time, too. but destiny isn't cinema.

The marvel universe as a whole is a really interesting concept. The individual movies aren't particularly exceptional, but they can hit some good notes of nostalgia, emotion and humor from time to time. It's not like they shouldn't exist. But it's not like the film Dr. Strange speaks to the human condition at all.
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Ngamer64 posted...

53. Death Stranding

Da butt? mister this game hasn't even come out yet
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It's a good show, but I'm a season behind
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NowItsAngeTime posted...

Do you mean around the leadup to Sayori's suicide? Or the stuff immediately after?

I guess my main complaint about the game was pacing.

I thought the waySayori described her experience of mental illness was very powerful. Her suicide was obviously surprising as well. In fact, all of the heartfelt revelations were worthwhile. That one sure-footed pivot from empty to meaningful was worth 30 minutes of playtime. But as someone who wasn't 100% comfortable with the basic premise in the first place- a set of teenage girls with low self esteem pathetically groveling for your attention- I don't know if I needed to spend the full multi-hour process to be told they should already be in a dark place. Or have to play through the whole game multiple times to try to save her.

What I wasn't as much of a fan of was the subsequent 'glitching out', random text, inverted color, and so on- time-wasting scenes. They were neat as genre-breakers, but I wish I knew what the name of the trope for it was. It reminds me of homestuck, oxenfree, and undertale to the point where I guess for me personally it isn't surprising. And it went on for toooo looong

It was valuable setup for Monika. I think the game could've skipped past some of that. The core story is good- NPC in dating sim breaks the fourth wall and sabotages the actual video game to make every other character depressed and unavailable so that she will be the only one left for you, the player, while ignoring the character you're supposed to be playing as- the pacing is just so so so so so so bad.

Again, the raw concept of the story is really good, it's just better on paper than in execution. And I guess this topic is about stories, not pacing or camera work or attention to details or anything that technical, so it shouldn't ding the overall ranking, which I guess I've talked myself back into being ok with

I should collect my thoughts and start thinking of what stories I actually do like!
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wow, parasite is the first must-watch i've seen in a while
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The switch has a lot of users and is absolutely starved for games, so I'm not surprised
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Feraligatr
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SwiftyDC posted...

I'm in the minority but I enjoyed the Matrix trilogy and Animatrix.

Oh, I thought the animatrix was good stuff. I didn't really count it as a movie because it felt more like a collection of shorts or TV episodes
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CassandraCain posted...

Uh

Matrix 1 is better than the Terminator series but the Terminator series is better than the Matrix series...

if that makes sense

this is pretty much how i feel, although the last terminator movie i watched beyond 10 minutes in was T3, so my opinions might be way out of date
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i wish we could just change the earth to take an extra hour or two to make a full rotation
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Time to buy 3 copies of Mario and Sonic at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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Punch Zell right in the bob
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I will say that I thought DDLC was absolutely brilliant for about 10 minutes in the middle, right about when things first started getting weird. I thought this because it was so obviously based on someone's real voice.

I'm not sure it was worth the 2 hours of awkward dating sim leading up to it, though

And the subsequent hour (or whatever) if nonsense afterwards could have been much shorter
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I read the first few posts, but am going to skip the rest because i will want to experience them first hand!
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Yeah, it sucks right now.

I haven't built a real standard deck since the rotation- waiting for the necessary ban and for the meta to settle
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CoolCly posted...

WoW Expansion cinematic. I thought i was gonna be annoyed by it but then suddenly it was cool

yeah. it started off dumb, but then retroactively justified the dumbest thing about wotlk

i feel like i need to understand the motivations of at least one character in a scene in order for me to connect with a scene. and we didn't understand either character's motivation until 80% of the way through
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Grand Kirby posted...

Oh no. Gamestop, what are you doing? Do you know what you're getting into?

they don't have to give back the money, they're just giving them store credit

it's a win/win for the store
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I like reading this topic series

It's too difficult to accurately contribute most of the time
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You got me with this one
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This made me realize ff has a pretty good roster of common enemies. Even the few whose names I didn't recognize are iconic

LeonhartFour posted...

pjbasis posted...

I wish Geezards were in every game

Best death animation in the series

I agree with this a hundred percent
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Nice! I've always kind of wondered what sort of stuff they teach in that field- You'll be leading in no time
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Main takeaway from this is Bethesda needs to be selling the whales bigger guns with which to defend themselves!
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what are you planning on getting your master's in?

EDIT: OR PHD
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I don't care if it ends up bad, I'm going to enjoy it anyway

I've successfully hyped myself

It's surprising how few truly weird AAA games exist
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When theros gods die, don't their believers auto- resurrect them with belief or something?

Idk theros lore, but my understanding is that gods get invented out of thin air if enough people believe
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This is difficult to do, because while 1 had by far the worst gameplay of the series, it's my opinion that the story and context immediately went to shit afterwards and only got worse from there

The cool part of the AC series was the mystery interleaved with parkour and combat- the secret societies and so on. In 1 you're not yet sure how the technology actually works and whether to take the lab technicians at face value. Altair is gradually learning new things along with the player.

Already in 2 nearly all mystery is gone, but at least they still try. everyone just somehow knows about all the secrets and secret societies and members are literally everywhere, but they still weave a plot about where these artifacts came from. Somehow everyone forgot about the societies by the time we reach the present day.

Imo, the onus is on the writers to advance new mysteries in each title

However, by 4 they had completely given up on anything interesting because it was too hard to do correctly. The series is now purely parkour, beautiful vistas and mild historical drama.

Yes, I'm disappointed, and dropped off the series a while ago. But I'm sure the newest game has the best gameplay yet.

I think 1 was the best idea and mandatory starting point for the series, and brotherhood is probably the ideal middle ground. Maybe 2. It's been a while
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i'll admit, i've only seen the first season and scattered episodes.

the show is situated in an interesting place, where the characters are crappy but not so crappy as to be unbelievable. a lot of shows go over the top with how horrible people behave, and that gives us enough distance to feel safely not like them- this show puts them somewhere in the middle

Hey if you dont like it you dont like it

Understood! I appreciate the rest of your explanation as well

and also the part where you relate to every decision and thought bojack has

I'll be completely honest, I don't think the average person relates to bojack. i'm crappy sometimes, but not in most of the ways that the main characters are. I know exactly one person in real life that identifies with bojack a lot, and he is the meanest person i know.

I do agree that the show is extremely well executed! It makes me feel uncomfortable with believable characters and strong writing. I think I've always been critically weak when it comes to awkward scenario humor (i.e. meet the parents, the one episode in the office, etc)

It's a good show, and i might be in the mood for it later. Kind of like how the first time I tried to play morrowind, or mass effect, or a few other games, it didn't click, but later on they became some of my favorite experiences
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